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Section: Competition of European Documentary Films for Young Audience
My Favorite War (2020)
An animated documentary tells the personal story of its director, Ilze, about her growing up in Cold-War USSR – about choices a girl has to make in a very young age, then getting wiser and finding the courage to speak out. It is an exciting coming-of-age story about finding one’s own identity, truth, and loyalty. First, we meet Ilze as a little girl playing war at her granddad ́s farm, then she is faced with the horror of war threats at school. Ilze lives in a clash between Soviet reality and state propaganda denying what people actually experience. Moreover, Ilze also finds out how opposite in their beliefs are people whom she loves the most.
| Country | Latvia, Norway |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Duration | 82 min |
| Rating | 12 |
| Language | English, Latvian, Russian |
| Subtitle | English, Czech |
| Directed by | Ilze Burkovska - Jacobsen |
| Screenplay | Ilze Burkovska - Jacobsen |
| Director of Photography | Andrejs Verhoustinskis, Trond Jacobsen, Mārcis Ābele |
| Music | Kārlis Auzāns |
| Edited by | Julie Vinten, Reinis Rinka |
| Contact | Ego Media |
Biography
A director straddled between Latvia and Norway, where she graduated. She focuses on TV series and documentaries, often in combination with animation, such as My Favorite War (2020) and the co-directed children's series My Body Belongs to Me (2017).
Human Rights, Family, Animation, Education, History, Documentary